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Tuesday, 27 August 2013

How to Run a Successful Affiliate Marketing Business

This article was originally posted on the Amazing Submit site, its very interesting some of which I was aware, but I did pick up ideas and strategies I didn't know - read on I hope you find it interesting


What You Can Do To Run A Successful Affiliate Marketing Business

Internet or web marketing is all about the marketing and sale of goods and services via the Internet. Although the subject can seem threatening to those without any previous experience, the basic techniques required to do good online marketing aren't that hard to master. The suggestions presented here can help.

Focus on building a quality site before you worry about marketing it and obtaining a ranking. This must be your first step in starting an online business. The better your site looks and operates, the less work you will have to do going forward.



Create a list of FAQs about your product. For each question or issue, offer a thoughtful answer, and mention products that you sell as a solution when appropriate. Come up with questions that answer a customer’s thoughts without being too obvious that you are using your products to do it.

Use popular websites to advertise your wares. This practice could lead to major exposure of your site. Look for a site that gets lots of traffic, and this can help you get your name out there.

Have sections or a large hub for your products so that visitors can easily find them. It’s great to give customers a lot of options, but you should still strive to give your page an organized appearance.

You must be willing to answer questions. People visit your site seeking knowledge, and if you can’t provide it to them, they will go elsewhere. Clear, concise information delivered in a friendly but professional way will show that you take your customers and your products seriously.

A regular blog keeps people thinking about your products. A continuing blog also stands as testament to the enduring value of your products. Blogging adds more content to your website, which can give you a larger presence on the internet. This frequently translates into more traffic to your site.

Try to make your website memorable. If your website is distinctive, it is likely to draw plenty of traffic away from more indistinguishable sites. Try spotlighting one of your special services.

Create a signature to put at the bottom of each e-mail you send, whether it’s for a personal or business message. Your e-mails are like your business cards on the internet. You should make sure they are spread as far as possible. Offering the person you are emailing a chance to see what your business is can help to increase site traffic and revenue.

Now that you've come to the end of this article, you are ready to get started. You need to remember to take things slowly and steadily. There aren't very many tactics out there that will generate traffic instantly. As long as you’re using accurate information, you should have no trouble creating a sound approach.


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Thursday, 18 July 2013

Rudeness on the rise in social media







Have you ever experienced Rudeness or nasty behavior Via your Social Media?



Ever check out your news feed on Facebook and seeing friends behaving badly?

Not surprisingly, what happens offline is happening online — even at an accelerated rate.

And online rudeness is spurring fights in real life.
Rudeness and throwing insults are cutting online friendships short with a survey released April 2013 that reveals people are getting ruder on social media.
social media rudenessThe study says two in five social media users have ended contact after a virtual altercation.

As social media usage surges, the survey found incivility also has increased with 78 percent of 2,698 people reporting an increase in rudeness online with people having no qualms about being less polite virtually than in person
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One in five people have reduced their face-to-face contact with someone they know in real life after an online run-in.

Joseph Grenny, co-chairman of corporate training firm VitalSmarts that conducted the survey, said online rudeness now often spill into real life with 19 percent of people blocking, unsubscribing or “unfriending” someone over a virtual argument.

“The world has changed and a significant proportion of relationships happen online but manners haven’t caught up with technology,” Grenny told Reuters on the release of the online survey conducted over three weeks in February 2013.
“What really is surprising is that so many people disapprove of this behavior but people are still doing it. Why would you name call online but never to that person’s face?”

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The Pew Research Center show that 67 percent of online adults in the United States now use social networking sites with Facebook the most popular while the latest figures show over half of the British population has Facebook accounts.

The survey follows a spate of highly publicized run-ins between people who came to virtual blows online.
British football player Joey Barton, who plays for Olympique de Marseille, was summoned by the French soccer federation’s ethics committee after calling Paris St Germain’s defender Thiago Silva an “overweight ladyboy” on Twitter.

Boxer Curtis Woodhouse was widely praised after he tracked down a tweeter who branded him a “complete disgrace” and “joke” after a loss, going to his tormenter’s house for an apology.

Grenny said survey respondents had their own stories such as a family not talking for two years after an online row when one man posted an embarrassing photo of his sister and refused to remove it, instead blasting it to all his contacts.

Workplace tensions are also often tracked back to conversations in chat forums when workers talked negatively about another colleague.
“People seem aware that these kinds of crucial conversations should not take place on social media yet there seems to be a compulsion to resolve emotions right now and via the convenience of these channels,” said Grenny.

Grenny suggested peer-to-peer pressure was needed to enforce appropriate behavior online with people told if out of line.

He said three rules that could improve conversations online were to avoid monologues, replace lazy, judgmental words, and cut personal attacks particularly when emotions were high.
“When reading a response to your post and you feel the conversation is getting too emotional for an online exchange, you’re right! Stop. Take it offline. Or better yet, face-to-face,” he said.

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Then how to combat the ill effects of online rudeness?
I advise individuals and professionals think twice about sharing a tweet or a post. If you have one, adhere to your company’s or organization’s social media guidelines.

But the highest standard I have to determine what to share on social media is my grandmother.
I ask myself this important question: What would my grandmother think?


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Saturday, 4 May 2013

Running a Contest on Facebook Successfully and Legally

Interesting idea to gain more "Likes" its all about traffic folks - But play by rules or there are consequences



Run A Contest On Facebook


1. Get you acquainted with how to market your product or service on Facebook.
2. Get you saddled up and set out on the road to Facebook marketing success!

Before We Begincontest-on-facebook

Disclaimer: Sorry guys, but I have to say this, just so that we’re all clear. I’m not a lawyer. None of my employees are.
To the best of my knowledge, John Paul isn’t either.

Neither my company (Garraty Group) nor our blog (SmBizBlog.com), nor this blog are in any way providing legal advice or service.
Point is, this post is designed to help you, but it isn’t designed to take the place of the advice of an attorney or your own better judgment.

Contest vs. Sweepstakes

The distinction between the two has been covered to the point of absurdity by every other blog out there, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t include it here, if only for the one person who still isn’t aware of the difference.
In a contest, the winner is chosen based on some sort of qualification, be it a skill (“the best illustration wins”) or some sort of merit (“the person we deem to be most deserving”).
In a sweepstakes, the winner is chosen completely at random, without any sort of qualification or decision structure.
It is important that you take note of this and use the right verbiage when advertising and discussing your event. For the purposes of this post, I will be using the word “contest” generically, just so we’re all on the same page.

The Rules

The first step to running a successful contest on Facebook is to make sure that your contest (and possibly your page) stay on Facebook, by following the rules. You see, Facebook has set out some very concrete guidelines where contests are concerned, and it has no compunction (and every right) to pull both your contest and your page down if they feel you’ve violated those guidelines.
(I promise I’m not going to fill this entire post with disclaimers, but you should take note that this post is by no means an exhaustive account of all of the rules and guidelines related to running a contest or sweepstakes on Facebook.)
The big kahuna
The biggest rule of all is that any contest you run on Facebook has to be run through a third party app.
The biggest app by far is one called Wildfire. It costs money (starting at around $50 per week at last I checked), but it’s probably the best out there, and is used by some of the biggest players on Facebook (Coke, Lowes, Tide, etc.)
Don’t have $200 to blow? Don’t worry. There’s a free (well, mostly free) app that’s been gaining a lot of traction amongst Small Business owners and entrepreneurs calledFreepromos.
I haven’t used it myself, but it’s received glowing reviews from a bunch of people that I respect hugely, and from what I’ve been told it’s completely free to use for pages that have less than 5,000 fans.

Frequently Asked Questions

“How do I add a third party app to my Facebook page?”
There’s no need for me to take up your valuable time by replicating the installation instructions here. Rest assured, installation is easy and painless, and whatever app you choose will walk you through the process quickly and easily.
“Do I need to use an app if I’m just talking about or advertising a contest that I’m running elsewhere?”
If you’re running a contest on your website, blog, in real life, or anywhere else apart from Facebook, you don’t need to use a 3rd party app if all you do is talk about/advertise said contest. You can’t ask people to do anything on your Facebook page, however… i.e.
“Don’t miss out on a chance to win an iPad2, visit our blog to enter and like this page for an extra chance to win.” (The bold part is the part that doesn’t fly).
“Can I ask people to like my page, upload a photo, or post on my page’s wall as a condition of entering my contest?”
Yes and no. You can force visitors to like your page before having a chance to enter the contest, but you can’t require fans to post anything or submit anything through Facebook as a prerequisite to entering the contest. (That’s where the 3rd party app comes in, because you can ask them to submit things there!)

The Prize

The prize that you offer should be something that’s valuable to your target demographic and related to your products or services. I personally advise my clients against offering one of their actual products or services as the contest prize.
The whole point of the contest, in the end, is to whip up a frenzy of activity and excitement around your brand and, thus, eventually make some sales, right? Given that… why would you give away for free whatever it is you’re wanting people to buy from you later on?

Make Entries Valuable to You

Too many Facebook pages just require you to click a button or, at most, enter your e-mail address in order to enter a contest. While an e-mail address is certainly something of value (see: e-mail marketing), there’s no reason that you should stop there. The prize that you’re offering is something of value, right? So get something of value in return! Make it worth your while!
Ask your contest entrants to fill out a survey (market research), interact on your blog (you do have a blog, right?), submit a testimonial (or if they haven’t used your products/services, a horror story about a competitor) to use in future marketing endeavors, and so on. The point is, make the entries more than entries… make them valuable to you, as long as people are going to go to the trouble anyway!
If you have any questions, or need me to clarify something. Well, please, ask away :)
This is a Guest Post by Carter Schimpff, the owner of Garraty Group Marketing, an online marketing firm located in Fort Worth, Texas. He and his team are also the wizards behindSmBizBlog.com, a helpful online marketing blog. You can find them on Facebook atfacebook.com/GoGarraty.

Friday, 19 April 2013

Give yourself a strategy - some easy steps




Have A Blog Marketing Strategy?


As a blogger today, if you want to have any real success, you will have to have a blog strategy so you know what to do when to do it.
Before you can develop a strategy, you will first have to know what your goals are with your blog. Think about your short and long term goals.blog-marketing-strategy
If you don’t know where you’re going, then no matter how good the plan is, you will fail.
Below I share my strategy to help you grow a popular blog that will get read, shared and will make you money.
Well it will if you follow it :)

Why Are You Here

Before you start a blog you should really know a few things first.
Why will your blog exist?
What will be your blogs topic?
What are your short and long term goals with your?
Once you have the answers to those questions, it will make things like, writing content, targeting readers, finding people to connect with much easier.

Match Your Content

Now that you know what your blog is here for, it is time to start writing content to match.
Staying on topic with everything you write may be the most important thing you do with your blog, especially if you are trying to build your brand with your blog.
Example:
On the Money Dummy blog, I talk about Blog Marketing, Social Media, Marketing, Twitter Marketing, Entrepreneur help and some Inspiration thrown in.
I write content to fit those things, since those are the things I know pretty well. I do that to help enforce the brand I am trying to build.
There are many things I don’t write about on my blog, since I either don’t do them or I don’t know how to do them.
I don’t write about Youtube, since I don’t do many videos.
I don’t talk about PPC, since I don’t really know it.
My content stays on topic to the things my blog is about. So when people visit my blog, they first see what I talk about, they then find the content that matches that.
This is the best way to get first time visitors to become long term readers.
Look at it like this…
Have you ever seen a crazy post title and thought “I have to read that”?
Then you get to the post and it has NOTHING to do with the title?
Annoying right?
That is how visitors will feel if your blog says it’s about one thing, but you don’t really write that one thing.

Share Your Brain

As a blogger there will come a time when you will move from sharing what you know Free, to sharing what you know in a product or service.
But before you get to that point, you will have to share  A LOT of high quality FREE information.
They should come in all forms, blog posts, ebooks, videos, Q and A’s from readers.
Share helpful, fully detailed blog posts.
Write high quality ebooks,
If someone emails you a question, answer it.
If a reader asks you a question in comments, answer it.
If a followers asks you a question on Twitter or Facebook, answer it.

I covered the power of answering questions on Twitter on my Twitter Branding post, that will help drive home the power of answering questions.
To build a successful blog, you will have to give, give, give in the beginning, but the more free information you put out, the easier it will be for you to sell information in the future.

Promote That Content

I have covered blog post promotion in detail before in my 7 Step Plan To Promote A New Post.
Promoting a blog post correctly is the most important thing you can do for your blog.
Yes, writing great content is powerful, but promoting that content to as many people as you possibly can will take you blog and brand to a new level.
Strong promotion will help drive traffic and new readers to you blog, and one of the best ways to use that is when you have a service or product to sell.
Have a new ebook coming out on “dog training”?  Well a few weeks leading up to that announcement, you should write posts that fit what you new ebook is about.
Example post ideas:
Why dog training doesn’t have to be hard.
How happy you will be with a well trained dog.
Tips to help you train your dog.

This way you are sharing a taste of what the ebook will be about and getting people interested in reading your great dog training tips.
Now you take each of those posts and promote the ish out of them, “my 7 steps about will help :) “
Once you do that, you will have more people reading your blog and thinking about dog training and why they need to train their dog.
You then release your new dog training book and enjoy the extra income :)

Keep Growing Your Reach

This goes for your blog readership and your social media followers.
You want to continually reach new potential readers and customers on a daily basis. If you want to have a successful blog, you will have to be seen by a lot of people.
The more people that read your blog, the more people you will have talking about your blog.
As far as social media sites, you should never settle for the targeted followers you have today, you should be connecting with new people on a daily basis.
Ways to grow your readership:
Write blog posts targeting keywords, to help grab search traffic.
Do guest posts on blogs that are related to your blog topic.
Spend some money on advertising, like banners on related blogs.
Do slide shares, press releases, articlesvideos which will all help bring in new readers.
Look for and connect with new targeted people on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Linked In.
High quality content will attract new followers.

To continue to grow your readership you will need to do everything I shared above and more.
Be creative, and find new ways to get you and your blog in front of more people.

Share Your Awesome

Who are you?
What makes you different?
What makes you stand out?
Whatever it is that makes you, YOU, you need to learn to share that awesomeness will others.
Everything in this blog marketing strategy that I just shared works, BUT it will work even better for you if you can do it all will some personality.
I know, I say that a lot, but it is so damn true that I have to keep saying it :)
Sharing your personality will help people relate and connect with you and your blog much faster.
Yes you want to share great helpful content, but if you can do it in a way that doesn’t put people to sleep is sooooooo much better.
Sharing your unique personality will also help you sell products and services faster.
If people like your content and like the way you share it, then they will automatically feel the same way about your services and products.
Example:
I loveeeee how JP writes his blog posts, I bet his product is just as helpful and fun and easy to take action on.
I loveeeee how JP shares what he knows, I bet working one-on-one with him would be easy, laid back and easy to take action on.
Once you get your readers to relax and relate and connect with you, you will be well on your way to building a blog that becomes a business.

http://www.johnpaulaguiar.com/blog-marketing-strategy/

Who Are The Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers, 2013?

Who Are The Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers  2013?


Who are the Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers for 2013?
You could answer that question by saying, of course, they are the people who most influence the biggest brands or have the best selling book or who have been around the business a long time.
But social media is a very democratizing form of communications and to assess influence you really need to know who is first among equals.

That means assessing who has a real following – real in the sense of real people and not just bots, real also in the sense that the following is active in social media and not just a passive consumer.
Being able to get to that essence, of people whose peers are actively involved with them, is why I chose Peek Analytics as the tool to measure influence.

There are also some basic criteria for involvement – experts must be creating their own content, and it has to be about social media. See more on the criteria here.
On the scoring, Peek Analytics gives people a score called Pull. If an individual has a Pull of 10x, that means that the audience the individual can reach is at least ten times greater than what the average social media user can reach.

If you want to measure your own Pull, you can do that by following this link.
Some observations on the upper part of the list….

The Top 10 Considered
In the top ten this year all the influencers have a pull of between 2,000 and 3,000. This represents influence among a group of peers, whether those peers are in Washington, Palo Alto or Peterborough.

#1. Leaders are more motivational.  We are seeing a lot more inspirational messaging via Twitter from this group than we did last year – almost as if social media is relegated (or elevated depending on your taste) to motivational relationships. This is becoming an essential part of being a social media leader.

#2. It is more gender balanced. The Top 10 this year is equally divided between men and women. Last year it was skewed towards men.

#3. It is easier to access. There is a bigger spread of scores here in the top 10 that in the remainder of the top 50 (1000 – 2000). Those scores are interesting for two reasons.
The first is that it still looks as though once you hit the top flight either you automatically get more (and more active) followers or your position reflects an ability to cultivate that type of group.
But secondly the data also shows that the 40 people from 11 – 50 are very tightly grouped and any of them could rise quickly.
#4. There are more self-starters. And finally the top ten last year was skewed towards people who had a strong institutional base – an employer who allowed them time to do social media. The group below are much more skewed towards self-starters who have made social media their business, or who are advising on how to make social media your business.

The Top 10….

# 1. Sean Gardner. Sean, who also writes at Huffington Post, comes in at number 1. Sean blends social media insight with inspirational messaging, a trend we’re seeing across social. @2morrowknight.

#2. Ann Tran. Number 1 on the women’s list, Ann writes primarily about social media in the travel and hospitality vertical @anntran_

#3. Jessica Northey. It’s a trend this year, leading influencers whose base is in a specific vertical. For Jessica it is music. She also says she’s moving away from blogging towards Google +. @jessicanorthey.

#4. Mari Smith. Mari is a leading Facebook marketing expert and one of the top 10, overall, from last year. She’s also the author of The New Relationship Marketing. @marismith.

# 5. Aaron Lee. Aaron has been strong on Twitter for a long time now, and has a useful website with professional-grade advice but which can also inform people at the beginning of their social media careers. @askaaronlee.

 #6. John Paul Aguiar. An eclectic mix of blog advice, Twitter and other social tools, John is in business to help people make money from social. @johnaguiar.

#7. Liz Strauss. Liz runs successful-blog.com. She’s currently taking on the challenge of cancer. Best wishes. @lizstrauss.

#8. Warren Whitlock. Host of Blog Talk Radio’s Social Media Profit Show, like John, Warren’s focus in on social media for profit. @warrenwhitlock.

#9. Ted Coine. Along with Shawn Murphy, Ted runs the Switch and Shift blog.  @tedcoine

#10.  Pam Moore. Covering Facebook, Google + and the business of social. @pammktgnut.

11 – 25. This group has a pull of between 1500 and 2000. More tightly condensed than the top 10, any one of them could improve that score over the year to come.

#11. Jeff Bullas. An eclectic mix of social media tips and online marketing advice from Jeff and a stable of guest writers. @jeffbullas.

#12. Renee Blodgett. Deep seated social media marketing expertise with a long chain of references and endorsements from mainstream media.  @magicsaucemedia and @weblogtheworld.

#13. Ted Rubin. A broader remit than many on the list, Ted puts social media in the context of the wider evolving business environment. @tedrubin.

#14. Eve Mayer. Officially a LinkedIn expert writes about a diverse range of social media issues and tools – Pinterest, Instagram, Google +. @linkedinqueen.

#15. Glen Gilmore.  Glen is a practicing attorney and teaches Digital Marketing, Crisis Communications and Social Media Law at Rutgers University Center for Management Development. @glengilmore.

#16. Paul Barron. Paul is a social media expert in the restaurant trade where he runs the successful TV channel, Turn and Burn, and the website digitalcoco. @paulbarron.

#17. Dan Schawbel. Dan’s work focuses on the use of social to build your personal success. Author of Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success. @danschawbel.

#18. Kim Garst. Advice on a mixture of social media tools: Google Hangouts, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram etc. @kimgarst.

#19. Lori Ruff. LinkedIn specialist who recently launched a new advisory service to guide companies on the use of the LinkedIn platform. @loriruff.

#20. Ann Handley. Ann manages the content factory that is marketingprofs, a site that is producing better and better social media content, as well as being a content marketing expert in her own right. @marketingprofs.

#21. Chris Brogan. Chris is CEO&President, Human Business Works: courses to grow YOU! @chrisbrogan.

#22. Gary Vaynerchuck. CEO and Co-founder of the social media & brand consulting agency, VaynerMedia. An authority in the branding and social media world who started out in the wine vertical. @garyve.

#23. Chris Voss. Chris hosts his own radio show, probably expanding now to a much wider remit. @ChrisVoss.

#24. Pam Dyer. Marketing manager at SolutionsIQ, Pam covers a variety of social media issues and trends in depth. @pamdyer

# 25. Laura Fitton. An online marketing generalist Laura is also a recognized expert in Twitter. The main reason for inclusion, apart from her ranking, is that she is a co-author of Twitter for Dummies. @pistachio.
So to the final 25.

#26. Calvin Lee. Calvin runs Mayhem Studios, a design practice in LA but has become perhaps better known for his social media work and social media advocacy. @mayhemstudios

#27  Jessica Merrill. Jessica blogs at blogging4jobs, an HR/recruiting site and joins the many other experts on the list who are applying social to a specific activity. @blogging4jobs.

#28. Bonnie Sainsbury   An eclectic range of themes around social, including one of the few on the list directly addressing mobile. @bsainsbury.

#29. Jonathan Naferrete. Jonathan is an Instagram expert. He doesn’t blog text very often but does post images – he’s also a photographer. @jonathan360

#30. Lilach Bullock, a social media marketing consultant with a strong following and some nice comparison work that looks at Pinterest, Facebook, earned media and more. @Lilachbullock can also be found at socialable.co.uk.

#31. Steve Farnsworth. Pretty eclectic mix of content from Steve who is Chief Digital Strategist at Jolt Digital Marketing. @steveology.

#32. Deborah Lee. British adviser with eclectic social media interests but a particular focus on Twitter. @debsylee

#33. Neal Schaffer. Social media consultant and adviser, Neal’s Windmill Marketing site is a good resource for the whole range of social media tips, particularly around LinkedIn. @nealschaffer

#34. Mike O’Neil. Linked expert Mike O’Neil runs the Integrated Alliances website and provides corporate LinkedIn training. @mikeoneilrocks.

#35. Jay Oatway. Author of Mastering Story, Community & Influence: How To Use Social Media to Become a Socialeader @jayoatway

#36. Jeff Barrett. On the PR side of social, Jeff writes regularly for the Washington Times in addition to running the agency “Status Creative”. @barrettall

#37. Scott Stratten. Eclectic website with topical pots on social media, especially Twitter. @unmarketing.

#38. Marsha Collier. Marsha is the author of 40 books, many of them in the social area, particularly around social media and customer service. A lot of her dissemination work takes place via Twitter and those books. Increasingly, we notice, she is taking her trade onto Google +. @Marshcollier

#39. Lori Taylor.  Lori writes an eclectic blog covering Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and general social media tips but her main work is in social media and direct response. Lori appeared in last year’s Top 50. @lorirtaylor

#40. Viveka vonRosen. Viveka is primarily a LinkedIn expert, though we’ve noticed her Twitter distribution is much more diverse than this. @LinkedInExpert.

#41. Yacine Baroudi. Yacine is broadening his scope from social media to internet of things, a journey that many in social will have to take. @yacinebaroudi.

#42. Sandi Krakowski. Sandi is a Facebook marketing expert and works on that fine line between social media and spiritual inspiration. I interviewed her about that work here on Forbes.com. @sandikrakowski

#43. Susan Cooper. Susan is a social media generalist but with a clear vertical focus in music. “I currently handle social media marketing, consulting and strategy targeted for musicians, entertainers and select businesses.” @buzzedition

#44. Christine Korda. Christine is VP and in charge of blogger relations at shesconnected and an active mom’s blogger. @christinekorda.

#45. Don Crowther. Socialmedia marketing, with some useful content on the latest trends. @don_crowther.

#46. Dede Watson. General tips on how to do social. Dede has maintained a strong following over the past 12 months. @Dede_watson.

#47. Erik Qualman. Author of Socialnomics and a runs the multi-contributor blog of the same name. @equalman.

#48. Michael Hyatt. Author of Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World, and runs a comprehensive advisory website. @michaelhyatt.

#49. Darren Rowse. Darren is Problogger, one of the best sources on how to blog for profit. @problogger.

#50. Christopher Penn. On the PR side of social Chris is also co-founder of PodCamp. @cspenn.


http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2013/01/30/the-top-50-social-media-power-influencers-2013/






Wednesday, 17 April 2013

10 Succesful People Who Proved That Age is Nothing But A Number



Age is not important, hard work and attitude is!  
Our society often thinks that the best age to be successful is between 24 and 40 and that, once you reach 50, your life is pretty much over. However, there are always shining examples that prove that success is possible at any age. All you need is the right attitude.
Here are some examples that will prove to you that, no matter what age you are, you can do it, too!

10 Young & Old Successful Achievers


1 - Justin Bieber

Justin-BieberIt doesn’t matter if you like him or not, what he did prove was that you can get somewhere if you believe in yourself and your talent. All you need to do is have the guts to put yourself out there, to broadcast yourself – even if it is on YouTube.
Justin Bieber was discovered at the age of 14 and is believed to have made $110 million in those five years ever since his manager Scooter Braun stumbled across his YouTube videos.

2 – Mark Zuckerberg

Mark ZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004 at the age of 19, literally changing the way people communicate. Facebook and Zuckerberg’s name are always at the center of much controversy, yet it cannot be denied that Mark Zuckerberg had a radically new idea and did not shy away from investing time and effort in it, at a time when he couldn’t have possibly known if it would work.
By 2007, Facebook had made Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire and nowadays he is believed to own about $80 billion today.



3 – Kathryn Joosten

Kathryn JoostenKathryn Joosten started out as a nurse and then was a stay-at-home mum. When her marriage failed, she thought she would chase her own dreams for once and become an actress – even though many would have considered her too old to start an acting career. It took her several years and she was almost 60, when she finally had the success she deserved for her never-tiring persistence.
Kathryn appeared in countless TV shows, such as Family Matters, My Name is Earl, Scrubs, and of course Desperate Housewives, winning two Emmy Awards for her performance as Karen McCluskey.


4 - Colonel Sanders

Colonel SandersColonel Sanders was well over 60 when he made it big with Kentucky Fried Chicken. Before that, he simply sold chicken and other food at a service station in Corbin, Kentucky.
When the Interstate 75 was built, diverting traffic away from his restaurant, his business was close to failing. Yet Sanders believed that he could do it. Instead of despairing or muddling through somehow, he adapted. He walked the long miles, pitching his unique recipe and was even knocked back 1009 times before someone decided to give him a chance to birth what is now known today as the highly successful food chain KFC.


5 – David Karp

David KarpSimilar to Mark Zuckerberg, David Karp relied on the internet as a source of income, where he launched Tumblr at the age of 21. Like Zuckerberg, he had a revolutionary idea. He had been looking into tumble logs – very short blogs – before and thought a platform to promote these systematically could be successful. It turned out, he was right. To this date, Tumblr hosts over 100 million blogs making David Karp’s net worth more than $200 Million.




6 - Missy Franklin

Missy FranklinMissy Franklin is only 18, yet she is a renowned swimmer who won four gold medals in the last Olympic Games. Furthermore, she holds several records, such as the world record in the 200 meter backstroke.
Missy Franklin started trying out for the US Olympic Teams at the age of 13. With her persistence and hard work, she managed to qualify for the Olympics in 2012, when she was only 17.



7 – Abigail Breslin

Abigail BreslinAbigail Breslin truly started early. Her first commercial for Toys’R'Us she did when she was only three years old, and by the time she was five, she had her first major role in the movie ‘Signs’. Only four years later, at the age of nine, she had her big breakthrough with her role of Olive Hoover in ‘Little Miss Sunshine’. She has a reputation of being able to pull off both humorous and serious roles, as her performances in ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ or ‘Definitely Maybe’ showed. She was the youngest actress ever to be nominated for an Academy Award (for ‘Little Miss Sunshine’) and won countless other awards.
Rumour has it that Abigail Breslin charges around $2 million for a feature role in a movie.


8 – Frank McCourt

Frank McCourtEveryone knows ‘Angela’s Ashes’, the story of Frank McCourt’s dire childhood, for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Books Critics Circle Award. A movie was made from his book, which became rather successful and thus also gave the novel another boost. What most people don’t know, however, is that Frank McCourt didn’t take up writing until he was 65. Before that, he was a teacher and led a rather ordinary life. Now, he has museums named after him.
Frank McCourt shows that no matter how dire your circumstances, you can turn them into something good.


9 – Ronald Reagan

Ronald ReaganGranted, Ronald Reagan was successful as an actor, yet he only became the 40th American President at the age of 70.
Ronald Reagan made drastic changes in economy to help increase economic growth. This even resulted in the coining of the term ‘Reaganomics’.




10 – Peter Roget

Peter RogetPeter Roget showed us that it is never too late to make earth-shattering inventions, such as the Thesaurus, which he invented at age 73. He actually used what most people would see as character flaws or issues to his success. Suffering from OCD, the only thing that would calm him down was making random lists. In the end, he simply started on the infinite project of creating a list of synonymous words.
Peter Roget’s ‘Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases’ has never been out of print since its initial appearance.


You see, you are never too young or too old to be successful or make a difference in this world. It all depends on your attitude – if you believe in yourself, are willing to put in the work required to make your dreams a reality, then it is never too early or too late for success!